(September 12, 2015 at 2:08 pm)Tartarus Sauce Wrote:(September 12, 2015 at 1:59 pm)ScepticOrganism Wrote: You get inside the lab, you leave religion behind the door.
That's not being an atheist though, that's being professional.
You said atheism should be mandatory, not scientific skepticism which is a given for the field.
It should be mandatory when you're inside the lab. Your beliefs are simply not gonna be compatible with the scientific process and method. Everything else is secondary.
"organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority" -- Richard Dawkins